PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Telephone and Telegraph Service: Revise Provisions Regulating Telemarketing to Residential Telephone Subscribers to Include Telemarketing to Mobile and Wireless Subscribers; Revise Legislative Findings, Definitions, and the Prohibition of Telephone Solicitation to Certain Subscribers; Revise Provisions Relating to a Database of Subscribers Who Object to Telephone Solicitations and Fees in Connection Therewith; Provide a Penalty for Unlawful Compilation or Dissemination of Information from this Database; Revise Procedures for Persons Making Telephone Solicitations

Authors

Derrick BinghamFollow

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

The Act allows mobile or wireless telephone subscribers to add their numbers to the state's no call list, which under certain circumstances prohibits telemarketers from contacting those numbers. The Act also allows the Public Service Commission to set the fee of up to, and including, $5 for placing numbers on the list. Further, it provides the Public Service Commission discretion to establish an appropriate fee for access to the list by persons or businesses wishing to make telephone solicitations. Finally, the Act makes unauthorized disclosure of the information a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $1000.

Recommended Citation

Derrick Bingham, PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Telephone and Telegraph Service: Revise Provisions Regulating Telemarketing to Residential Telephone Subscribers to Include Telemarketing to Mobile and Wireless Subscribers; Revise Legislative Findings, Definitions, and the Prohibition of Telephone Solicitation to Certain Subscribers; Revise Provisions Relating to a Database of Subscribers Who Object to Telephone Solicitations and Fees in Connection Therewith; Provide a Penalty for Unlawful Compilation or Dissemination of Information from this Database; Revise Procedures for Persons Making Telephone Solicitations, 20 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2003).
Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol20/iss1/8